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Audio Books For Children
Tired of looking for the solutions for stopping the “Are we there yet?” questions? Looking for an educative modern method that will make your children pleased? The solution might be audio books. Find out in the following article, the benefits and...
Eight Reasons Why You Must Add Audio To Your Website
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Did you know that Internet users remember only 20% of what they read while remembering an amazing 70% of what they hear? Audio on your website will help your message stay with fresh your...
Enjoy Driving With Audio Books
Did you know that A trucker working to the legal limit in the U.S. can rack up to 3,432 driving hours a year—nearly 10 times that of the average New York commuter or enough to listen to the unabridged audio book version of Bill Clinton’s My Life 77...
Headphones To Please Any Type of Audiophile
There are many different types of headphones on the market today. This is in high contrast to the headphone market just a few decades ago, where your choices were either studio monitor headsets (the big, clunky type worn over the ears) or cheap...
Seizures at IBC show to enforce MPEG Audio patents
Amsterdam, September 13, 2005 - SISVEL obtained an order from the District Court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to seize the set-top-boxes displayed at the IBC show by a number of companies not licensed under the MPEG Audio patents.
SISVEL...
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Why Hire A Professional Transcriptionist To Convert Your Dictation Or Audios To Typed Text?
In a discussion forum for non-fiction writers (where I had posted my introduction of myself and my professional transcription business), another member replied and mentioned that for simple dictation, she uses a voice recognition software program.
When what she had said really sank in, I felt like someone had punched me in the stomach!
Then my reaction was huge dismay and questioning, "Why should I even stay in business?" This came JUST after spending almost two months getting clear on why my transcription business feels exciting to me and realizing that I want to assist and support creative, positive, motivated people to succeed in ways they have not been able to before, working on interesting projects!
I imagined emptying my transcription business website of all information -- just leaving a notice (as a ‘public service’) pointing out to the people who THINK they need me to transcribe their audios that they should go and buy that software instead!
Yikes! Drastic thoughts!
But seriously, then I started thinking some more...
I mean, it's a legitimate question! Why SHOULD someone hire me if they can buy software for dictation?
In what situations would dictation software be inferior than having a live, intelligent human being (who is passionate about helping her clients succeed) listening and transcribing their audio material instead?
Knowing such software exists, ANYONE might appropriately ask that question!
Since I've never worked with this kind of software, I realize I may not understand it perfectly, so I decided to ask some questions...
With audio recordings of interviews, groups, or live teleclasses, seminars, and so forth, how does the software distinguish between multiple speakers? How does it know to punctuate and break the text into paragraphs appropriately?
When people just speak naturally, their speech is filled with tons of 'ahs' and 'ummms' and 'you know's' and so forth. Does the software know to filter those out when appropriate? People also string multiple sentences together with 'and' forever! Does the software know when to break the sentences apart?
How about when the quality of the audio recording is not top-notch, such as when there is background noise or people speaking on top of each other... how does it handle that?
Even when there is only a single speaker, if they do not dictate punctuation, paragraphs, etc., does the
software intuit that correctly?
If the software does not handle these issues well, how much work is involved in cleaning up the text?
Also, in my relationships with the clients I've worked with, there is the unquantifiable element of me being an objective outsider who can catch errors or discrepancies in the CONTENT. And I often even come up with valuable ideas to help them improve their material!
There is a creative, collaborative give and take between my clients and me that often seems to be of benefit to us BOTH beyond the action of me ‘just’ transcribing their audio recordings.
So, I concluded, there IS still a need for my services by many people! Not all, but I’m sure enough to keep me busy. I actually do enjoy this kind of work under the right circumstances and with the types of clients I intend to connect with!
So in the end, I thanked that discussion forum member for her post and the internal thinking process it sent me through, because it helped me face a fear and come out stronger on the other side!
And then, as a welcome validation of everything I had deduced on my own, quickly after I had submitted my reply to her, she was kind enough to reply with a more detailed explanation of how the voice recognition software works and its definite limitations -- everything I had suspected, and even more!
I truly have a valuable, worthwhile service to offer my clients. I’m very proud of my skills, my dedication, and my opportunity to make a contribution to the entire world by assisting my clients to develop their own gifts in ways they might never on their own IF it was up to themselves alone to type out their wisdom and creativity!
About the Author: Laurie Kristensen operates a successful audio transcription and typing business, visit http://www.LKTranscription.com (subscribe to “Your Partner in Success Newsletter” and receive THREE valuable free gifts) -- also be sure to browse through Laurie’s Success Resources at http://www.LKSuccess.com
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Yahoo! Search - Audio Search |
Submit your audio content - including podcasts - to Audio Search with Media RSS ... Find audio files from across the Web including music, podcasts, ... |
audio.search.yahoo.com |
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AltaVista - Audio Search |
Search for MP3s, WAVs and streaming audio files on the web and on FTP sites. |
www.altavista.com |
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Rhapsody & RealPlayer — the best audio and video players — Real.com |
The standard for audio and video streaming online. |
www.real.com |
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SuperPass — premium audio and video programming — Real.com |
RealNetworks cross-platform multimedia player. Supports RTSP/RTP with H.261, u-Law, a-law, MP3, DVI. [Client] |
www.real.com |
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The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio |
List of major online audio resources; part of the WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK. |
archive.museophile.org |
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More audio reports | Audio archive | Guardian Unlimited |
Special report: Europe's far right. More audio reports ... Audio, 'It will achieve a great deal of injustice' February 17, video: The Conservative candidate ... |
www.guardian.co.uk |
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Internet Archive: Audio Archive |
Non-English language collections contributed to the Open Source Audio collection ... You are invited to view or upload audios to the Open Source collection! ... |
www.archive.org |
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M-AUDIO |
Manufacturers of MIDI and audio devices for the PC or Mac. Product catalog, company information, news and support center. |
www.m-audio.com |
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Audio - Salon |
Free spoken word recordings from hundreds of authors. Includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and live author events. |
www.salon.com |
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Audio Engineering Society |
The leading professional association worldwide for professionals involved in the audio industry. Extensive and well maintained site, including online member ... |
www.aes.org |
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Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
HyperPhysics: Sound and Hearing · Audio for the 21st Century · Conversion of sound units and levels · Sounds amazing a learning resource for sound and waves ... |
en.wikipedia.org |
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Audio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Windows Media Audio, Microsoft's proprietary digital audio format. ... "I hear" in Latin. Audio, magazine covering high fidelity music reproduction. ... |
en.wikipedia.org |
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AudioREVIEW.com - Home Audio and Home Theater resource |
Consumer reviews on home audio and home theater equipment. |
www.audioreview.com |
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CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
Audio Plug-ins & Assistance. Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player 9. Frequently Asked Questions, Frequently Asked Questions. Ogg Vorbis Format ... |
www.cbc.ca |
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CBC.ca - Listen to CBC Radio |
From 7:00 p.m. AT Friday, December 1st to 7:00 p.m. AT Saturday, December 2nd, the Fredericton audio stream will be unavailable due to a power shutdown in ... |
www.cbc.ca |
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Audio - Creative Commons |
Features a pool of Creative Commons licensed audio. You may submit your MP3s · OYEZ Years of Supreme Court proceedings available as licensed MP3, ... |
creativecommons.org |
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Audio Adrenaline |
Audio Adrenaline is an award winning Christian Rock Band that writes, records, sings and performs songs like Big House with Gospel driven messages to ... |
www.audioa.com |
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Audio Bible Online |
Audio Bible, The King James Version narrated by Alexander Scourby is on-line. |
www.audio-bible.com |
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Audio - ebaumsworld.com |
hilarious audio sound files file mp3 mp3s audios. ... Shocking audio of a man getting shot. Tags: ghetto · Blondestar Blondestar ... |
www.ebaumsworld.com |
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AudioFind.com - multimedia internet search |
Searchable MP3 directory with thousands of files. Browse alphabetically by filename, master artist, or date. |
www.audiofind.com |
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